My 1001 Albums Journey

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	5	3.12	+1.88
Truth Jeff Beck	5	3.16	+1.84
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	5	3.17	+1.83
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	5	3.29	+1.71
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.49	+1.51
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	4	2.52	+1.48
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.54	+1.46
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	5	3.96	+1.04
Midnight Ride Paul Revere & The Raiders	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
System Of A Down System Of A Down	1	3.26	-2.26
Like Water For Chocolate Common	1	2.95	-1.95
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4
Low-Life New Order	2	3.29	-1.29
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols	2	3.13	-1.13
Slanted And Enchanted Pavement	2	3.03	-1.03

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Artist	Albums	Average
Joni Mitchell	2	5

5-Star Albums (8)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

1-Star Albums (2)

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Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

I used to own a copy of this album, pretty much everyone did. I played it a lot at the time but it didn't stick with me, nice to hear it again after about 30 years away. Not a bad start to this project for me

Low-Life

New Order

2/5

Never heard this album before, never been a fan of the band. I'm giving it a go but not holding out a lot of hope to be honest. Update - listened to the whole album, quite listenable, but not really for me.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

5/5

Only three days into this project and it's thrown up my all time favourite Traffic album, a band that I love dearly and this album is five stars all the way. After the short lived Blind Faith project Steve Winwood pulled two out of the three other members of traffic back in to reform the band. A classic slice of 70's prog blending jazz, folk and blues seamlessly. The traditional title track has been arranged and recorded by numerous acts, this is one of the finest examples.

Truth

Jeff Beck

5/5

A real classic, Jeff's first solo album post Yardbirds, heavily featuring Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, this is a great heavy blues-rock album. I've got the expanded CD reissue to listen to today, lots of bonus tracks.

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

I've heard of the band before but never listened to them, so streaming today via YouTube. Seems like fairly typical late American punk, attacking the evils of society with angst-packed fervour. I've taken an immediate dislike to the drum machine, but aside from that it's OK. Reading the reviews on here it seems very much a Marmite album, scoring either 1 or 5. I've given it a 3

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

1/5

Until this moment I've never heard of the bloke, apparently an American rapper. I'll listen to a couple of tracks but I'm guessing it's not for me really....... Nope!

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

Another band that I have heard of, but never actually listened to a single note, which is pretty much the point in this exercise I guess, listening to the album today, it's pretty good indie rock, but I'm not enjoying it much really.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

His first solo album after the White Stripes. I've never heard it before today, there's nothing particularly special about it, but some good musicianship hiding in there somewhere

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

5/5

What an absolute banger. Bodhisattva is one of my favourite SD tracks, Show Biz Kids and My Old School are classic Dan. I couldn't give any of their 70s output less than five stars and this gives me an excuse to play some more today.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

This is a really interesting listen, good old fashioned American Garage pop. Not well known here in the UK, the album is most notable for I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone, although it's not their composition, it was a hit for the Monkees and later covered by the Sex Pistols.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

This is exactly why I started this project, to hear weird and wonderful stuff like this! Funky bongo covers of the Shadows and Iron Butterfly. Great start to a Sunday morning.

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

I mean it's a classic 80's pop album isn't it, but... you know.... meh! I just watched the video for The Way You Make Me Feel and I'd like to know why that woman is not running away screaming!

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

Lennon's first solo album, a stripped back three piece band with Ringo and Klaus Voormann. In school I remember we loved Working Class Hero because of the swearing. A very good album, full of self-examination. Lennon's first solo album, a stripped back three piece band with Ringo and Klaus Voormann. In school I remember we loved Working Class Hero because of the swearing. A very good album, full of self-examination.

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

The third Sparks album, kicks off with their most famous song. Sparks are a band I don't listen to often, even though I've got a few of their albums, maybe I should pay them a bit more attention. I'll do that today at least.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

I've never consciously listened to Goldfrapp, so this is interesting. I get the impression that this album might not be typical of their other work? It's pretty mellow. I enjoyed the Happiness video

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

Completely new to me, the soundtrack to an imaginary film. Barry has excellent heritage with Magazine, Nick Cave, etc, but this is a different beast altogether. Complex and intriguing, I loved it.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Joni's third album is often thought of as one of her finest, it's stripped back, bare sound draw attention to the deeply personal lyrics. I don't have this on CD, so I've ordered one today

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

I've never really listened to them, except for that one that's always on the flippin' radio. Going in... , listened to most of it, couldn't;t quite stick it out till the end, it started to get on my nerves.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

a great live rock 'n' roll performance. My dad was a big rock 'n' roll fan so this would have been more his thing than mine.

Django Django

3/5

Never heard this band before, but I quite like the art rock sound they are creating here. I can hear some 60s psychedelic pop influences, especially in the vocal harmonies. It's quite simplistic, but fairly listenable.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Good result today, I absolutely love this album. I've got the 40th anniversary edition, which includes the 1969 concert plus a DVD with two films. Just the album this morning though... Aside from the title track the big numbers here, of course, are Cecilia and The Boxer, but there's no filler on this album.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

This was the first Bowie album I ever bought and it's still my favourite. Strangely I wasn't really a big fan until after his death, but since that time I've been a convert and collected most of his albums. This band, with Mick, Trevor and Woody, were a really special unit, epitomising the glam rock excess of the early 70s. The whole concept of the Ziggy story and image spoke to a broad audience, with a particular call to those who may have thought themselves to be misfits in some way. Ziggy is a true 70s classic, but it's also ageless.

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

A band I probably should have paid a bit more attention to at some point, I hear a lot of good things about them but I've never really found the time for them. This debut album is proper old school punk rock, energetic and angry.

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

Latvian avant-garde/industrial/experimental band, never heard of them but it should be right up my street, right? Diving in. Sounds like they influenced Rammstein and Saviour Machine, they seem to be making a political statement, but what is it...?

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

5/5

The second JM album I've had this month, no complaints from me about that. This was probably the first JM album I ever heard, at a school friend's house, late 70s. it's beautiful album with a stellar line-up

System Of A Down

1/5

My son used to listen to to these a lot when eh was a teenager, always blasting out of his bedroom at ridiculous levels. I'm still traumatised, giving it a go but I don't think I can stick it out... Update - I gave up after two songs

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Interesting experimental pop/rock, another band I've never heard of until today but it's worth a listen. Echoes of Krautrock and 60s psychedelia.

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Spearheading the Two Tone movement of the early 80s, lots of great songwriting and a bit more adventurous than some of their contemporaries, I was never a two tone boy at school, no Harrington jacket or Fred Perry shirt for me thanks, but you have to acknowledge they wrote some great hits.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

At last! A 'proper' jazz album, a month in and this is the first one that's come up. I dont own this one, so diving in with great expectations. Mostly Brazilian Bossa Nova compositions, one by Byrd, all arranged by Getz.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

American singer songwriter, never heard off the bloke before, but so far it's quite a pleasant listen.

The xx

3/5

Another new one to me, a minimalist approach to their music with echoes of 80s electronica and, I can hear at least, a Brian Eno influence, from his early solo songs. not bad.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

February is off to a really good start with this Neil Young classic, the first of his albums I ever owned, bought on cassette in my schooldays, late 70s. No filler here, it's a stunning album from the opener Cinammon Girl through to Cowgirl In The Sand.